Turkey launched fresh air strikes on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in northern Syria and Iraq overnight, killing 59 militants, in response to a gun attack that killed five people in Ankara,

The first Ankara attack victims were being buried Thursday, just hours after Turkey struck PKK militants in Iraq and Syria whom it blames for the assault on a defence firm that killed five. Overnight,

The PKK, classified as "terrorist" by Turkey and its Western allies, including the US and the EU, has been fighting against the Turkish army since 1984. Turkey's response to the attack that killed five people in a factory near Ankara on Wednesday was swift.